Policing humanitarianism : EU policies against human smuggling and their impact on civil society / Sergio Carrera, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrera, Sergio

Mitsilegas, Valsamis, author.

Allsopp, Jennifer, author.

Vosyliute, Lina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law--European Union countries.

Emigration and immigration law.

Human smuggling--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Human smuggling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart, 2019.

Summary:

Policing Humanitarianism examines the ways in which European Union policies aimed at countering the phenomenon of migrant smuggling affects civil society actors' activities in the provision of humanitarian assistance, access to rights for irregular immigrants and asylum seekers. It explores the effects of EU policies, laws and agencies' operations in anti-migrant smuggling actions and their implementation in the following EU Member States: Italy, Greece, Hungary and the UK.The book critically studies policies designed and implemented since 2015, during the so called 'European refugee humanitarian crisis'. Building upon the existing academic literature covering the 'criminalisation of migration ' in the EU, the book examines the wider set of punitive, coercive or control-oriented dynamics affecting Civil Society Actors' work and activities through the lens of the notion of ' policing the mobility society'. This concept seeks to provide a framework of analysis that allows for an examination of a wider set of practices, mechanisms and tools driven by a logic of policing in the context of the EU Schengen border framework: those which affect not only people, who move (qualified as third-country nationals for the purposes of EU law), but also people who mobilise in a rights-claiming capacity on behalf of and with immigrants and asylum-seekers.

Contents:

Introduction

Countering migrant-smuggling : the EU's policy approach

The role of EU agencies in policing migrant-smuggling : EU home affairs agencies and national actors involved in anti-migrant-smuggling

Anti-smuggling in national law and perceptions among civil society actors

Effects of countering facilitation of entry : CSOs involved at external EU sea and land borders

Humanitarian assistance in the context of the EU hotspots approach

The effects of countering facilitation of residence : access to services and rights

The three faces of policing the mobility society in the EU

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781509923014

1509923012

9781509923007

1509923004